Adrian Lowe is a white male activist, organizer, and prison abolitionist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time of this interview, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and a community organizer with Hearts on a Wire, a grassroots organization he co-founded that supports transgender incarcerated people ...
Agaiotupu Viena is a fa'afafine and trans woman from Amerika Samoa, educator, advocate, and community organizer based in the Seattle area. At the time of these interviews, she was Program Director for TRANSform Culture, an education and advocacy program of the Pride Foundation, a Seattle-area philanthropic organization prioritizing movements led...
Aldita Gallardo is a Latinx trans woman, community organizer, and former youth worker based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, she served as a Senior Program Associate for the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy, and as a board member at El/La Para Translatinas, a community center, public health, and anti-viol...
Alex Griffin is a white trans woman, social worker, and community activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this oral history interview, Griffin discusses the impact of her upbringing and education on her politics, her first forays into, experiences within, and thoughts on trans politics, community organizing, and direct action, her experienc...
Alexander Li-Hua Lee is a Asian American trans masculine activist and attorney from Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, he was the Project Director for the Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) initiative at Funders for LGBTQ Issues. Prior to joining Funders, Alex was a public interest career counselor at UC Berkeley Sc...
Andy Marra is a Korean-American trans woman, activist, educator, and public policy advocate based in New York City. At the time of this interview, she was the Executive Director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF,) an advocacy and legal services organization serving and lobbying for trans and gender nonconforming people. ...
Ash Stephens is a Black transmasculine anti-criminalization activist and community organizer based in Chicago. At the time of this interview, he was Manager of Policy & Strategy at the Transgender Law Center, a PhD candidate in the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC,) and a board member at th...
Aurora Higgs is a Black queer visionary, activist, scholar, and speaker based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she had recently begun her PhD at Virginia Commonwealth University, studying the bidirectional relationship between queer and trans people of color and digital media. She has been a vocal member of the activist comm...
Beau Larsen is a white trans educator, scholar, and forensics coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, they were the Director of Forensics at Macalester College, where they directed and coached the mock trial, ethics bowl, and debate teams. Prior to their work at Macalester, Larsen was a graduate student and debate coac...
Bran Fenner is a Black transmasculine activist, consultant, educator, and ER and hospice nurse based in Brooklyn, New York. At the time of this interview, he was Director of People and Organizational Culture at the Transgender Law Center. Prior to his work at TLC, Fenner was the founder of the Education for Liberation Project, a co-director of F...
Canyon Carballosa is a white Cuban queer trans nonbinary dancer and movement maker based in Los Angeles. At the time of this oral history interview, they were working as a professional dancer, choreographer, and Youth Protection Advocates in Dance (YPAD)-educated dance instructor. In this oral history interview with Macalester College students H...
Carter Brown is a Black trans man, activist, and community organizer from Dallas, Texas. Brown is the founder of Black Transmen, Inc., and served as its Director at the time of this oral history interview. He also works with the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (BTAC, is highly active in community organizing efforts among Black trans men, and has ...
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Cathy Kiana Keiko Kapua is a Native Hawaiian māhūwahine and trans woman, community organizer, and public health advocate based on O'ahu. At the time of this interview, she was Deputy Director of the Trans Justice Funding Project, an organization that distributes grants and other funding to grassroots organizations led by and serving trans commun...
Chase Strangio is a white transmasculine attorney and activist. At the time of this interview, he was a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and served as Deputy Director for Trans Justice of the organization's LGBT & HIV Project. Prior to joining the ACLU, Strangio worked at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York Cit...
Christopher J. Cuevas is an Indigenous-Latinx, non-binary community organizer, educator, and peace practitioner based in Orlando, Florida. Since co-founding the organization in 2016 following the Pulse nightclub shooting, Cuevas has served as the executive director of QLatinx, a racial, social, and gender justice movement working toward the adva...
Dean Spade is a white trans activist, writer and teacher. He founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. He is the author of the book Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Po...
De Sube is a white trans woman and activist based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she served as the Chairperson, Director of Client Services, and Treasurer of the Transgender Assistance Program of Virginia, a group she co-founded. She also is a co-founder of the Gender Expression Movement support group, and has decade...
Devi Peacock is a South Asian non-binary storyteller, performing artist and community organizer based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, they were the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion, an Oakland-based BIPOC, queer- and trans-led arts organization, as well as the co-organizer of the Liberated 23rd...
Dominique Morgan is a Black trans woman, prison abolition activist, and artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time of this interview, Morgan was the Executive Director of Black and Pink, a nationwide prison abolitionist organization that provides direct services and support to currently and formerly incarcerated LGBTQIA+ people. Prior to her w...
Dr. Colton St. Amand, PhD, MD, LP is a transgenderqueer Two Spirit man, Texas Licensed Clinical Psychologist, and family medicine physician resident with a concentration in gender and sexuality care. St. Amand is affiliated with the University of Houston Department of Psychology and Baylor College of Medicine, is a Family Medicine resident at th...